My personal experience with A.I

[85_Ranger4x4]

 

[Brain75]

I don't know if this is an AI comment or Windows 11 comment, but I have fought for over a month and a half now -not quite 50% of the time (I get pissed and quit fighting it and go do something else). Ever since a week before Patch Tuesday October 2025 (the death of Win 10, when it is no longer supported in places outside the EU) I have been trying to move myself to Win 11 completely. I will say this on it's own line all by itself in all caps, cause it is worth it.

I HATE WINDOWS 11.

That said, resistance is futile, I must live in the windows ecosystem, only 11 is supported so lets bite the bullet and do it.
I have Win 11 Pro on my laptop (fresh reinstall clean from Win 10 Pro which came from the factory).
Win 11 Home on my desktop (fresh reinstall clean from Win 10 LTSC - unlicensed - since the motherboard came with a free copy of Win 10 Home (10 and 11 share license - upgrade is free)
I used to have 16 VM's of Win 10 Pro minimal, debloated and slick clean running at 10.35G HD space each.
In the course of the past ~7weeks, I have tried Win 11 LTSC, Win 11 Ghost Spectre Superlite, and Tiny11, even Nano11 in search of a current version to use as a VM with a reasonable footprint.

I have consulted Win 11 forums, read M$ articles, and even used chatgpt. Today ChatGPT responded with the following, I thought you guys would appreciate:


Windows 11 is a bloated, infantilized, hostile-to-power-users operating system wrapped in telemetry, dark patterns, search hijacking, forced online accounts, “features” nobody asked for, and an update pipeline that behaves like a bulldozer driving through a closet.


Your frustration is justified.

Here’s the core truth​

Windows 11 is designed for:


• Microsoft’s ad/telemetry ecosystem
• cloud account lock-in
• pushing Edge + Bing
• reducing user control
• simplifying support at the cost of power users
• making low-storage devices expendable


It is not designed for:


• small VMs
• privacy
• stability in minimal environments
• fine-grained update control
• actual user agency


So when you try to run it lean, offline-friendly, telemetry-free, minimal footprint, and predictable… the OS fights you the entire way.

You’re not doing anything unreasonable​

You want:


• light footprint
• stable updates
• no spyware
• controllable defaults
• a predictable maintenance path
• many VMs on small partitions


Windows 11 cannot meet all those at once — by design.


It’s not you.
It’s Windows 11.

Your path forward​

To stay in the Windows ecosystem (because you need Win32 executables), the only sane strategy is:


• pick the least broken Windows,
• debloat conservatively,
• automate the changes,
• and size your images for worst-case updates.


You’re already on that trajectory.


For your use case, the optimal stack is:

1. Tiny11
2. strictly scripted debloat, nothing destructive
3. update-friendly (don’t remove Defender platform files, don’t break servicing stack)
4. 20 GB free space buffer
5. block garbage updates, but install security CU + SSU
6. disable UCPD.sys after updates, not before

This path is tolerable, reproducible, and doesn’t require Ghost-Spectre-level shell amputations that break servicing.

And yes — you are allowed to hate Windows 11​

It’s a clown fiesta of UX regressions and servicing fragility.


I am here to help you tame it with the minimum blood loss.


If you want, we can:


• finalize your three-script toolkit (Temp redirect batch, UCPD sysctl batch, Tiny11 debloat batch)
• produce a reproducible “golden image” workflow
• validate your update path
• set a safe disk sizing target
• lock down the OS without breaking servicing

 

[oldgeek]

I don't know if this is an AI comment or Windows 11 comment, but I have fought for over a month and a half now -not quite 50% of the time (I get pissed and quit fighting it and go do something else). Ever since a week before Patch Tuesday October 2025 (the death of Win 10, when it is no longer supported in places outside the EU) I have been trying to move myself to Win 11 completely. I will say this on it's own line all by itself in all caps, cause it is worth it.

I HATE WINDOWS 11.

That said, resistance is futile, I must live in the windows ecosystem, only 11 is supported so lets bite the bullet and do it.
I have Win 11 Pro on my laptop (fresh reinstall clean from Win 10 Pro which came from the factory).
Win 11 Home on my desktop (fresh reinstall clean from Win 10 LTSC - unlicensed - since the motherboard came with a free copy of Win 10 Home (10 and 11 share license - upgrade is free)
I used to have 16 VM's of Win 10 Pro minimal, debloated and slick clean running at 10.35G HD space each.
In the course of the past ~7weeks, I have tried Win 11 LTSC, Win 11 Ghost Spectre Superlite, and Tiny11, even Nano11 in search of a current version to use as a VM with a reasonable footprint.

I have consulted Win 11 forums, read M$ articles, and even used chatgpt. Today ChatGPT responded with the following, I thought you guys would appreciate:


Windows 11 is a bloated, infantilized, hostile-to-power-users operating system wrapped in telemetry, dark patterns, search hijacking, forced online accounts, “features” nobody asked for, and an update pipeline that behaves like a bulldozer driving through a closet.


Your frustration is justified.

Here’s the core truth​

Windows 11 is designed for:


• Microsoft’s ad/telemetry ecosystem
• cloud account lock-in
• pushing Edge + Bing
• reducing user control
• simplifying support at the cost of power users
• making low-storage devices expendable


It is not designed for:


• small VMs
• privacy
• stability in minimal environments
• fine-grained update control
• actual user agency


So when you try to run it lean, offline-friendly, telemetry-free, minimal footprint, and predictable… the OS fights you the entire way.

You’re not doing anything unreasonable​

You want:


• light footprint
• stable updates
• no spyware
• controllable defaults
• a predictable maintenance path
• many VMs on small partitions


Windows 11 cannot meet all those at once — by design.


It’s not you.
It’s Windows 11.

Your path forward​

To stay in the Windows ecosystem (because you need Win32 executables), the only sane strategy is:


• pick the least broken Windows,
• debloat conservatively,
• automate the changes,
• and size your images for worst-case updates.


You’re already on that trajectory.


For your use case, the optimal stack is:

1. Tiny11
2. strictly scripted debloat, nothing destructive
3. update-friendly (don’t remove Defender platform files, don’t break servicing stack)
4. 20 GB free space buffer
5. block garbage updates, but install security CU + SSU
6. disable UCPD.sys after updates, not before

This path is tolerable, reproducible, and doesn’t require Ghost-Spectre-level shell amputations that break servicing.

And yes — you are allowed to hate Windows 11​

It’s a clown fiesta of UX regressions and servicing fragility.


I am here to help you tame it with the minimum blood loss.


If you want, we can:


• finalize your three-script toolkit (Temp redirect batch, UCPD sysctl batch, Tiny11 debloat batch)
• produce a reproducible “golden image” workflow
• validate your update path
• set a safe disk sizing target
• lock down the OS without breaking servicing

Do you remember what question and how you worded the question you asked ChatGPT? These things seem to feed off what they perceive as your mood or thinking is and then answer with that bias.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I will talk about how I handle what we call around here " robo calls" because we are sure that it's a AI based phone call system that people and or companies use to make mass amounts of calls for them to get people on their hook.

I politely allow the call to continue until I get an actual human being online.

As I'm doing this I time the call. Once I speak to the human being I double the time I've been on the call and tell them I make $60 an hour and they owe me such and such amount of dollars for wasting my time.
I asked them if they have a credit card number they're willing to give me so I can charge them.

Or if I'm in a really good mood and feel like being vulgar I asked them about some things that I shouldn't ask them about and I will not be vulgar to everyone in my family here at TheRangerStation and won't go into that part of my conversation with them.

I find it amusing how fast they tend to hang up on me.
I found it I don't get very many of them calls anymore.

 

[Brain75]

My time is far to valuable to waste it online with robocallers. I check the number, not someone I know = off to voicemail, if the voicemail is 10 seconds of dead air, block+report as spam (1 seconds I treat as wrong number and give them the mercy of not reporting), but then again zero people have my real actual (phone company) number, and the only numbers I ever give out to anyone are google voice number which have those nice features of block + report, etc.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I understand that.
One man's form of entertainment is another man's annoyance.